#‘now were being forced to choose! is anyone else getting thanksgiving flashbacks?

[boygirlctommy]

Kai freaking out over his friends fighting bcus it reminded him of his parents was a BIG MOOD

[jjohnson217]

With the Tale of two Jasons this far along, I am able to see what is wrong, and could've been done better in this story(in my opinion). Most of it is story, but a part of it is the way couple fans are reducing it because of the lack of conflict being shown from Sam.

For JaSam fans(not all but a lot), Sam is completely in love with Jason but is only with Drew because he can provide a safe life, or she's committed to being thus new her that she created because Drew forced her into it. She's unhappy and is choosing her family over herself. For DreAm fans(not all but a lot), she loves Jason but is completely over him romantically, and Drew is obviously the love of her life.

The truth is that neither of these statements is completely true. She loves both men, maybe not equally but close enough to equally that the choice is already hard for her. Add on the fact that she changed, even before Drew came into her life, and she has children to consider now, and the choice is incredibly difficult and complicated.

My first issue is that Sam and Drew aren't involved in finding the truth. It's been a couple months, there has been enough time for everyone to get their bearings, Sam and Drew should be in this Faison thing, not Sonny and Carly. It affected their life more personally than it did CarSon's.

My next issue is with the way they've regressed Carly for Jason's return, and as a result, the possibility for a deepening of the CarSam friendship. She's back to meddling and relying on Jason to make it on for her to do so. Carly learned to stand on her own while Jason was gone, and after losing Michael because of her need to protect Sonny, she has been a lot less likely to meddle in other's business, unless it's for her kids. Carly became a bit more rational. On top of that, Sam and Carly became friends outside of their individual relationships with Jason. She should be a person that Sam can go to to talk about her feelings. She can be proJason and still support Sam in her choices. Sam has no one to talk to about this because she has no friends other than Carly and Maxie. With Maxie focused on the Faison thing, Carly would've been great for an outside perspective. Because, even though she is Jason's friend, Carly is also not personally affected by who Sam chooses.

Sam and Drew should not have gotten married. This is me, as a DreAm fan, knowing she loves him and he loves her. As the situation is, with Sam's conflicting feelings, she shouldn't be committed to anyone but her kids. She and Drew should've separated while Drew looks into his past; while she gets used to a life where Jason is back and wants her back but she also has a child with someone else; while Jason learns to live in a world where Sonny can run the business without him running to do menial things for him, Carly doesn't make messes for him to clean up, Michael is a grown man who can definitely take care of himself, and his kids are a part of his life; and while they ALL find out why this happened in the first place.

Making Jason a mindless dummy for Sonny is bothering me too. They've taken Jason and forced him into this box of being Sonny's yes man, even to the point of putting his own questions to the wayside. Sonny didn't have to ask Jason to put going to Russia on hold to go to puerto rico or wherever to handle whatever, but he did. He could've sent someone else, but the writers chose that moment to show the priority that even the smallest of tasks come first fir Jason as long as it's about the business. The writers are writing Jason as such a one dimensional character, whose primary purpose is to support Sonny, and everything else is secondary. Jason looks to Sonny before doing everything, even handing his gun over to Jordan after shooting Faison. AS IF HE HAD A CHOICE. Like he thought, "well if Sonny says no, then sorry, no dice commish." Seriously? Jason hasn't been affected by the fact that he lost five years in any way besides, Sam loving someone else. He went to the penthouse, knowing it had been five years, expecting her to have just been waiting for him. Then goes to Sonny and says he would never leave him. Even with what happened to him, how it affected his family, seeing that Jake is alive and knows who his father is, he would still not change his priorities. That lack of growth is what puts me off. I'm holding out hope that after he gets answers, that'll change, but with the way he's being written right now, I don't see it happening.

The biggest issue is that we aren't getting Sam's unfiltered thoughts on this situation. As I said before, Carly would be good here. Heck, even Lulu would be. She only talks to Drew about how she feels, and she can't be completely honest about her conflict without hurting him, and she doesn't want to do that. She can't talk to Jason for the same reason. We are left to interpret why she has flashbacks, what they mean, and if she's really doing what she wants, or if its just what she thinks is best for her kids. We don't know her motives or what she thinks about anything. We don't know. And this ambiguity hurts the story more than almost anything else. If viewers saw her torn, heard her talking to a friend about the love she has foe both men, the story would seem more like the triangle that the writers are claiming is there.

Making Jason this mindless yes man for Sonny is bothering me too. The writers have reduced him to this one dimensional character who exists only to support Sonny, with his family taking a back seat in the extra time that is his personal life. He doesn't do anything without Sonny's approval, from being told to put going to Russia on hold so he can do some menial task in Puerto Rico(i think) to waiting til Sonny said it was ok to give Jordan his gun after shooting Faison. As ifhe really had a choice. Seriously? What, he thought, "well sorry, but Sonny said no, so no dice commish,"? Its mind blowing.

Jason fans, for the most part, seem to have no problem with him being written the way he is. They think that he's fine the way he is and Sam loves him more than enough to accept herself and her children being fifth on the list behind Sonny, the business, Carly, and Michael. But she shouldn't have to put his wants above her kids importance when he won't put his kids ahead of someone else's.

They're also writing Drew as a family man before anything else. He is close with Monica, even as Jason, they were close. He loves his kids and is there for them all, even knowing now that they aren't biologically his.(Side note: yes, I will keep referring to Danny and Jake as Drew's kids, because that man has been their father for the last two, almost three years. He loves them, he makes time for them, he is their father.) Jason, however, spent both Thanksgiving and Christmas with the Corinthoses, sparing a quick minute to say hi to Monica. He hasn't tried to spend any time with Danny, even when waiting for news on Faison. But Sonny seems to be able to hang out and talk with Carly about Joss whenever. He waved to Jake, but when he got a call from Sonny he was gone. And they're working on the same thing so that makes no sense.

DreAm fans think Sam doesn't need to process her feelings for Jason. They kissed and she wasn't affected by it. She still married Drew, and Jason is stuck on Sonny so its an easy choice to be with Drew. Her love is that for your first love and nothing more.

Between the lopsided writing for Jason and Drew, sticking Sonny in stories he doesn't need to be a main player in(that's a whole other issue i have with this show), and the ambiguity of Sam's feelings, this story has become a huge mess. I have no faith in it's direction, but my love for the characters makes me invested anyway.